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Arms & Armour, History Conservation and Analysis
มุมมอง 3583 ปีที่แล้ว
A quick flip through this new exciting group of essays on Arms and Armour in honor of our great friend and colleague David Edge on his retirement from Head Conservator of The Wallace Collection.
A Sword in the Digital Hand
มุมมอง 2823 ปีที่แล้ว
A presentation by Oakeshott Institute Fellow Dale Utt on the 3D modeling work he is doing for The Oakeshott Institute and other organizations around the world to replicate objects virtually. He discusses the ongoing 3D research at the Oakeshott Institute Collection, from academic research to swords in video games, looking at the various ways the Oakeshott Institute is utilizing 3D models to bri...
From Szabla to Saber: the Polish Saber, its history, and impact on swords east and west
มุมมอง 8883 ปีที่แล้ว
The Oakeshott Institute & Center for Early Modern History at the UofM present a recorded conversation with Bartosz Sieniawski. He is a lifelong Sport and HEMA fencer, and a scholar of HEMA who has broken ground in the study and practice of the Polish Saber of the 16th-18th centuries. He is the author of “The Saber’s Many Travels (The Origin of the Cross-Cutting Art),” a pioneering English artic...
"Weapons, Wounds, and Warfare" - Oakeshott Institute 2020 Lecture Series, Quarter 1
มุมมอง 1.1K4 ปีที่แล้ว
Recorded February 15, 2020 At the Battle of Shrewsbury in 1403, a then 16-year-old prince Henry took an arrow to the face that plunged 6 inches into his head. In a feat of surgical expertise, John Bradmore successfully removed the arrow and treated the young prince who became one of the most celebrated martial king in English history. Forever marked by scars of the nearly fatal wound, King Henr...
The Oakeshott Institute Moonbrand
มุมมอง 4144 ปีที่แล้ว
A look at the Moonbrand Sword in The Oakeshott Collection.
What is Wootz?
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An brief introduction to what is wootz steel.

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  • @zacharychaos10
    @zacharychaos10 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Please upload the transcript mentioned last year, that would be amazing to read

  • @andreipetrocenco8731
    @andreipetrocenco8731 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Этот мужик бредит.

  • @elanejoreserva
    @elanejoreserva 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ''... BABY DON'T HURT ME'' I came here just to write this. Oh wait katana stuff!

  • @evanmorris1178
    @evanmorris1178 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I very much enjoyed handling this sword a few years back at the Institute. It is indeed very light and quick in the hand. There are some “Viking” swords with similar feel.

  • @raphaelhanna8345
    @raphaelhanna8345 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Does this book have any information about the A474? I need to know because the book is very expensive but I need to know about the A474 so I don't want to pay so much on a book that doesn't have what I need

  • @Imabigelvisfan
    @Imabigelvisfan ปีที่แล้ว

    OMG you would easily pass as Ricky Gervais's brother, amazing.

  • @isaacharrell1029
    @isaacharrell1029 ปีที่แล้ว

    ☹️ P r o m o S M

  • @HikerDood
    @HikerDood ปีที่แล้ว

    Great stuff. In my club, the NJHFA, we do talk about how Bloßfechten means fencing with cloth armor. Having all of the protective gear lures us onto the mindset that we're either doing Bloßfechten badly, or Harnischfechten very badly. We really can't reproduce the conditions from 1570 nor do we wish to (not to mention our liability insurance, which I'm thinking they didn't worry about in 1570).

  • @vyomsrivastava3759
    @vyomsrivastava3759 ปีที่แล้ว

    320th like

  • @jbloun911
    @jbloun911 ปีที่แล้ว

    ?!? Explain geophyte metal protection? Like natural blueing

  • @Daniels_unique_YouTube_alias
    @Daniels_unique_YouTube_alias ปีที่แล้ว

    Greetings from Germany, watched the first few minutes and marked it for a full watchthrough for later, seems interesting! Do you have a transcript and/or the presentation for download? As a foreigner, and because of the mobile recording with low quality microphones, i had a hard time understanding the speaker sometimes.

  • @mitchellreece3711
    @mitchellreece3711 ปีที่แล้ว

    Can we purchase Wootz ingots? Or finished blades of crucible wootz?

  • @tombrown4683
    @tombrown4683 ปีที่แล้ว

    Beautiful ! Fine example & over 700 years old. Respect.

  • @craigmurrayauthor
    @craigmurrayauthor ปีที่แล้ว

    thank you Craig (says Craig) Can wootz be further refined to eliminate the sulphur and phosphorous that makes the shimmer (and decreases the quality of the steel)

  • @urge2kill2000
    @urge2kill2000 ปีที่แล้ว

    www.youtube.com/@fz-makingknives3663

  • @thebassassin5507
    @thebassassin5507 ปีที่แล้ว

    I know they use vanadium in wootz but in pure form but what if your organic matter used as a carbon also contain vanadium? The mushroom amanita muscaria contains the most out of all living life forms. Use dry amanita!

  • @mrsmith8436
    @mrsmith8436 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wootz is not pronounced like foot it’s like boot. Also if you watch the documentary about Al Pendray then you will understand this is an over simplification of how wootz steel is made. The thermal cycling and vanadium percentage is critical otherwise you just get steel that looks like wootz but does not have the same properties.

  • @nicholasking6066
    @nicholasking6066 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wootz has Vanadium .metal in it that's what allows it to make those patterns and they are far more functional than pretty. This is how wootz is made and the men who discovered the science behind it th-cam.com/video/OP8PCkcBZU4/w-d-xo.html This is Elia with general information on different kinds of steel and while masterwork wootz is undeniably king, getting it wrong makes a very bad product as he points out in this vid. th-cam.com/video/5djVkOgu8vs/w-d-xo.html Making passable wootz that can stand tow to tow with an Ulfbert for instance is already a feat of a master Smith, making masterwork Wootz requires starting with very clean material and then doing everything correctly. Eather you make masterwork wootz or you make something pretty that bends mid battle and may cost you your life.

    • @just_that_crazy5179
      @just_that_crazy5179 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      A person sharing valuable knowledge deserves at least a like. Thank you good gentle person

    • @advithbhaviya5712
      @advithbhaviya5712 ปีที่แล้ว

      though wootz was from India

  • @DogsaladSalad
    @DogsaladSalad 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Literally legendary

  • @SuperFunkmachine
    @SuperFunkmachine 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    It sounds like the women and non-graduates are under cutting the pay of the graduates.

  • @simplestyo-byfireit8195
    @simplestyo-byfireit8195 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    ita indian stuff, the tipu's sword is also made with it.

  • @timporsch2669
    @timporsch2669 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I think it incredible that you can keep your cool in such a situation (Or are you long past that point :D?), I wish you all the best!

  • @michaelrizzo5523
    @michaelrizzo5523 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I wonder if this came off the recent updates to their legal agreements, because the new wording includes all weapons. This is going to crush a lot of sword dealers all over the world. And will they then use it against all of those dealers' customers?

  • @robertwrightson6455
    @robertwrightson6455 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Do any of your subscribers know about how the Oakeshott collection was pirated away from England where it was founded by dishonourable means applied to an elderly widow who had no way of knowing the value of her recently deceased husbands collection? It was nothing less than a typical American take over of assets that they are famous for and also quite shameful to deprive the English Nation of a primary source of historical weapons (faulty as it is) and to salt it all away in a place where hardly anyone get to see it. Shame on you.

    • @ialkarn6931
      @ialkarn6931 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's a pretty severe accusation, and pretty shameful if true, do you have any reference to support this?

    • @theoakeshottinstitute4081
      @theoakeshottinstitute4081 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Robert, that is a highly inaccurate rumor that was bandied about by people who had designs on individual pieces and organizations that did not want to accept the collection if it needed to stay together and be used for education. Both Sybil and Ewart where responsible for setting up the conditions of the collections future and we have only followed those wishes.

  • @davidmooneyham1607
    @davidmooneyham1607 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    No antiques or weapons. It's a simple rule.

  • @nelgnella4314
    @nelgnella4314 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    th-cam.com/video/OP8PCkcBZU4/w-d-xo.html

  • @bryanduchane2371
    @bryanduchane2371 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Do you know Bill Daush?? I believe he and a few others actually rediscovered how to make Wootz steel again 25+ years ago. He's a fantastic metallurgist!!!!

  • @blackthornknives
    @blackthornknives 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Well done sir

  • @aadarshrajsharma1856
    @aadarshrajsharma1856 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is this wootz steel which used to be produced in India but the process of which exist no more. Or there r many varieties of wootz. Sorry if I am wrong as I don't no much about this.

    • @KJAkk
      @KJAkk 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      You may find this interesting. The Secrets of Wootz Damascus Steel th-cam.com/video/OP8PCkcBZU4/w-d-xo.html

    • @theoakeshottinstitute4081
      @theoakeshottinstitute4081 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      There are some varieties and slightly different approaches to the manufacture. The Video posted by KJAkk is pretty good as Al knows his stuff in ways few others do today. It is probably a bit of marketing that the secret was lost. It never stopped in certain areas it was just off the grid as it were to the knowledge base of the west. Historically there were large areas of production using these methodologies from the mid East thru Central Asia all the way to the Island cultures of Southeast Asia.

    • @timmitchell5812
      @timmitchell5812 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@theoakeshottinstitute4081 Craig, you are totally correct, the method of making wootz was never lost and there has been an uninterrupted line of smiths who have continued the craft to the modern day. The people making it in India are marginalized there and most Indians are not even aware of their existence. The production of wootz definitely declined heavily from the mid 1800s due to the export ban, deforestation, famine, competition and a few other factors, but it still continued inside India. What has changed is that those in the west who have been making this steel such as my former mentor Al Pendray, have been able to work out what is happening in the steel to create different traditional patterns and we have in effect brought the craft back out of obscurity. By the way it is awesome that you were able to handle an original ingot from the Konasamudram cache! They are a little bit different than the ones we make today.

    • @seanfaherty
      @seanfaherty 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was under the impression that Indian smiths used the same techniques for years afterwards but did not have access to the original ore with Vandium in it . I was told Toledo steel used a similar technique ( the furnace didn't make use of monsoon winds but rather a bellows) again, not with the original steel and it took a few centuries to explain the science behind the old technology . Either way those Indian guys were killing it back in the day. From math to steel to architecture to chess, western cultures owe a huge cultural debt to India. All of the stuff we learned from the Arabs, the Arabs learned from the Indians

    • @timmitchell5812
      @timmitchell5812 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@seanfaherty There were many different techniques used to make crucible steel in different areas in India and around that part of the world not just one. The idea that it died out due to there being an "original ore with vanadium" that ran out originated with John Verhoeven and it was only a thought that he threw out there with no historical foundation at all. It is a modern myth. The toledo steel was a pattern welded damascus type method with forge welding higher carbon steel with lower carbon steel. I am unaware that they used a crucible steel as their higher carbon steel source.

  • @BorninPurple
    @BorninPurple 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi, I was wondering if you could provide further elabouration on the Ottoman manual (Matrak) that you're working on? There is Efkan Calis in Turkey who is also doing this research. I do research for Mamluk Sword fighting (there's a bit of a pause at the moment until further translations of Furusiyya literature is possible) and have translated Ibn Hudayl's 1392 treatise from a Spanish translation to English, and am doing a second draft of it (the first just translated the sections of arms and armour and the second is a full translation). If you're ever interested in talking please contact me. I also have several videos on my channel about Mamluk Sword fighting and reconstruction. I also am doing research on the "Sacred Sword" collection in the Topkapi Sarray Museum.

    • @theoakeshottinstitute4081
      @theoakeshottinstitute4081 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hi Nicholas, Dr. Hamilton is very interested in discussing this and some of your research. Can you email us at admin @oakeshott.org and he can respond in a better format?

    • @BorninPurple
      @BorninPurple 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@theoakeshottinstitute4081 Hello, apologies for the belated response as work has been very busy. I have sent an email, addressed to Dr. Hamilton, from the email provided.

  • @emel60
    @emel60 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good day, Craig. I have a question about wootz. So, all wootz steels are crucible steels, but not the other way around. So what differentiates them? Only the etched visual patterns, as in wootz steels? Thank you, Loris

    • @Deeznutz002
      @Deeznutz002 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I might be wrong but no steel is wootz with out vanadium enriched iron ores. Bloomery to crucible. Do wonder if it was thanks youtube... Fa÷\×ggited or folded. 😉

    • @theoakeshottinstitute4081
      @theoakeshottinstitute4081 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Good question! I am not sure the definitions are defined like that. The term wootz is a crucible steel but I think any steel produced that way would have been called wootz back in the day. Its the modern folks and the desire to have a name for every variation and the mixing of terms across culture, period and form that gets it all jumbled. The wootz blades of the past had the etched finish and sometimes this was patterned mechanically. But a blade could be made from wootz and not etched and would still be wootz. You can even see the pattern if polished and in bright sunlight in some cases.

    • @emel60
      @emel60 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@theoakeshottinstitute4081 It is my belief that the modern nomenclature isn't what it used to be. I am not sure when wootz was starting to get associated with visible pattern. Using a plethora of academic resources, I figure wootz steel is a geographically associated crucible steel (South India and Ceylon) which was made by the steel carburizing method, using wrought iron and plant matter charge, as opposed to co-fusion method from Central Asia (Merv). My observation is also that the tern is used solely for warfare arena- armour and weapons, but ordinary household tools, such as scissors, nails, etc. are never referenced as wootz. I figure you might take the Parmigiano Reggiano parmesan cheese as an example. Make that type of cheese outside its region, with differently sourced ingredients and it is not parmesan anymore. The certificate for the latter could never be obtained. But is there a way to tell if any given weapon, regardless of the hilt and blade style provenance, is from South Indian subcontinent or from Central Asia? Is there a way to distinguish and provenance the 'damascus' weapons which were exported to Damascus for forging, and further export, in an analytical way? Isotopes? Chemical composition? How do you gentlemen do it?

    • @theoakeshottinstitute4081
      @theoakeshottinstitute4081 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@emel60 Deep question, the studies on the material have looking at some of these questions but as of now I do not think there is a "Test " result they are looking for to identify origin. That being said a holistic approach looking at all the factors of a piece including any evidence on the material itself is the best way to discern origin or at least where the item was made. Also research into trade routes and supply. As with so many aspects f the trade in material and arms production not a great deal has been codified on such a level, but I do know there are people working on different aspects of these things. I would say we are just passing into the second generation of folks doing deep research on these things and we will see more information to help with much of our understanding of this in both the east and the west in the next few decades.

    • @timmitchell5812
      @timmitchell5812 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The question that you ask is less than straight forward to answer. The term Wootz came from the term Uts or Utsa in Tamil, Hindi or Marathi around the Bombay area of India during the 1790s. It was used to refer to water patterned steel (it means fountain, spring, water source) specifically but in the other languages in the region it was known as Ukku which meant to melt or Urukku which means Steel. The words in that region were specific to melted / crucible steel, and Wootz / Uts was only one of the names used. In Marathi and in Northern India it was called Polada. Not all wootz had a well identified pattern as some in southern India was solidified quickly but it was still called the same names that the watered steel was. But watered crucible steel was made from Egypt up to Turkey and across to Mongolia. These were called by the name Bulat, Fulad, Polad, Bolat etc. all from the same basic root word which simply means "Steel". There was crucible steel which had no pattern and others with many different patterns depending on the ingredients and how it was forged. All these steels today fall under the blanket terms of Fulad, Bulat, Wootz. It is all talking about the same material but in the languages of the peoples who made them. Now these only apply to steel which is melted and solidified in the crucible, not steel which is poured into a crucible and then solidified. There were many different recipes of this steel and things like chromium, copper, manganese and silver etc. were added deliberately to the melts in different areas with different results. I hope that clarifies your question. I am a wootz smith and researcher of 20 years experience and a co-founder and president of the International Wootz Society ( internationalwootzsociety.com ). Cheers, Tim.